VOL. 50 ISSUE 49 DECEMBER 10, 2013
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Cunningham's custom paint shop
in San Pedro. The frame is powder-coated in a bright orange hue
sourced from the Dodge Charger
paint catalogue and its matched
to Peugeot blue and pearl white
bodywork. This motorcycle could
only have come from Southern
California…
Indeed, it was probably only
a matter of time before Capri
looked at matching his powerup tuning expertise with more
sportier handling than the stock
Bonneville twin-shock chassis
could deliver – much less saving serious weight in delivering a
stripped-out streetrod.
The Street Tracker's lightweight
twin-shock
chassis
weighs just 32 pounds, including
the fabricated box-section swingarm, and is identical to the ones
used by the West Coast Triumph
flat track race team that Capri
tunes motors for. This open-cradle frame in 4130 chrome-moly
tubing uses the heavy Bonneville
engine scaling 220 pounds as a
semi-stressed chassis member.
So it all adds up to the Tracker
weighing in at a remarkable 351
pounds - split 49/51 percent
slightly rearwards - with oil, but
no fuel in the 2.7-gallon handbeaten aluminum fuel tank.
Big savings come from the
forged aluminum wheels sourced
from Carrozzeria in Japan, which
scale an amazing 20 pounds less
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1. The stripped-down Street Tracker
weighs 30 percent less than a stock
Bonneville and is 70 percent more
powerful. 2. The Tracker gets twin
Öhlins rear shocks and the rear
wheel is a 17-inch rear Carrozzeria.
3. The British made Acewell digital
dash. 4. Yes. Those are carburetors.
than the Triumph stockers, says
Capri. The front 18-incher wheel
gets a single 310mm Galfer carbon steel petal disc (clamped in a
41mm Kayaba fork sourced from
a 2004 Yamaha R6, the last year
before the upside down variety
was fitted). Set at a 26.5-degree
rake with 97mm of trail, this is
adjustable for rebound damping
and spring preload, but only the
preload can be changed on the
